Doctoral Degrees (Curriculum Studies)

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    A workload model for nurse educators in private higher education: options for improved productivity and job satisfaction
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2019-04) Coetzee, Catherina Maria (Kayline); Bitzer, E. M.; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Education. Dept. of Curriculum Studies.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT : Nursing education in South Africa is continuously being influenced by significant changes in all spheres of higher education. There is little doubt that most of these changes have a major impact on the workload of nurse educators in private higher education, possibly even more so in relatively young and developing private higher education institutions. Considering recent contextual changes, this study aimed at investigating the workload position of nurse educators within a typical private higher education institute in South Africa and developing a realistic and suitable workload model that may contribute to raising the efficiency, work satisfaction and productivity benchmark of nurse educators. In this study the researcher employed the systems theory and expectancy theory as theoretical lenses to understand the phenomenon of both the theoretical and clinical components of nurse education and their relation to motivation, productivity and job satisfaction within nursing education. The study centred on private healthcare education at an identified multi-campus private healthcare organisation as the employer. The researcher strived to gauge, describe and possibly improve the productivity and job satisfaction of nurse educators as employees of this organisation. It was argued that the workload of the nurse educator is complex and multifaceted which therefore required a pluralistic research design. A range of research methods employed from within a pragmatic worldview, as the philosophical underpinning, gave the researcher the freedom to select a Framework for an Integrated Methodology (FraIM) to address the research question(s). Data were analysed from workload diaries, individual and group interviews and a Delphi exercise which was used to strive towards consensus. It was concluded that the work situation of nursing educators at one multi-campus private higher education institution is complex and challenging, yet stimulating. The study revealed that nurse educators are under pressure due to increased workloads within a rapidly changing nurse education environment. The study showed a private nurse education sector in South Africa faced with financial challenges and although private institutions acquire skills plan levies for the training of nurses in certain specialties and as listed companies, they do not get any state subsidy for basic nursing education. These institutions are expected to carry the financial burden of training basic nursing students in a highly competitive medical care service provider business world. The main value of the study is its contribution to the development of a practical workload model that may not only assist in addressing the needs of the host private higher education institution but also add value to the core business needs of the holding company and similar universal nurse education entities. The study contributed to an improved understanding of the various factors contributing to the complex workload of nurse educators. An important outcome of the suggested development of an allinclusive workload model is the benefit of an effective management tool to determine person-power requirements more accurately during planning and budgeting operations in private nursing education.